Nice update.........I gotta check my fig.........I don't recall seeing any figs yet?

A fresh fig! What a treat that would be, the only thing better might be a fresh date from the garden. Best of luck for you and your garden this winter. 😀

Wonderful your fig is bearing!

Love your desert garden, very nice selection of plants in there.
My favs are the young yuccas...rostrata?

Do crows/magpies come and steal your colored stones/marbles? They do here!

Thanks for the pics, Bryce.

Barb

I will keep everyone updated over the winter. I got another fig today, yay :D. Barb thanks and not that im not aware of them stealing stones or marbles we have crows here and iv seen them out front sometimes a group of 5 or 6, but I haven't noticed any missing yet, but they may find them. I already have rabbits, deer, and groundhogs eating my plants, sometimes they disappear but no stones missing yet maybe its only a matter of time, lol.

Very nice! Thats a great idea with the cinderblock. I was going to do that with some melon plants, but changed my mind.

I have crows here, at least 20 that chill around/in my yard. Ive never seen em steal stones, but ive seen them stack crackers, imitate sounds I make at them, and pick up squirrels and drop them 30 feet onto the street when a car is comming....

I vote crows being the next advances species 😯

I've heard of the rabbit explosion back east.
Almost happened in Kelowna too, but cullling efforts seem to be fairly successful.

I don't know if you mentioned this, Bryce, but despite having grown a fig already, do you need two trees to get a large crop?

Barb

Crows are pretty smart iv heard of people keeping them as pets and teaching them to talk, apparently they are good at mimicking sounds. Barb I have seen more rabbits this year than I have in a while I dunno what the deal is. At my aunts house, she lives a few miles away her house is crawling with rabbits its like a plague. Every time I go out there i see at least 5 sometimes as many as 15 rabbits. Figs don't require pollination they are parthenocarpic which means that they don't need fertilizer or pollination to produce fruit. In warm climates figs will produce more than one crop at least 2 sometimes more. In cold climates only one crop is produced and the second crop overwinters as embryonic figs that will ripen the following year. I have read that figs bear heavier when they are root bound. I have also heard that if the soil is too fertile they wont fruit well and will mostly just produce a lot of foliage.

more rabbits this year than I have in a while I dunno what the deal is.

Lemmee guess: sex ! 😆 😆
Probably as prolific--or more than--feral cats.

Interesting details about figs, Bryce.
Didn't know any of that!
Wish my palms were parthenocarpic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenocarpy

Learned a new word, too.

That wiki page reminded me of the lack of yucca moths in many areas:

Plants moved from one area of the world to another may not always be accompanied by their pollinating partner and the lack of pollinators has spurred human cultivation of parthenocarpic varieties. Some parthenocarpic varieties have been developed as genetically modified organisms.

Re crows:
Funny story at my mother's condo, I've seen this myself.

Imagine 7 or 8 crows sitting on the roof ridge cap, all facing the same direction.
The first crow passes a walnut to the next, he passes it on to his neighbor, and so on.
As it gets to the end of the row, invariably one crow drops it and the walnut rolls down....plop, plop, plop into the eavestrough.
While it's rolling down the roof, every crow turns and looks at the guy that dropped it as if to say "you dummy".
So he goes down into the eave and picks it up, lands on the edge of ridge cap and the game begins again.

I could've watched that for hours.
Almost peed myself laughing at them.
Barb

Great shots, especially the HC figs and the box turtle!

Good story Barb

Hey -that yards looking good,nice collection of Agaves too!

Nice pictures! Do you have to protect your agaves in Jonesboro?

Bryce... A nice collection of plants. 😀
Never heard of Chicago hardy fig?? You can keep it outside? We have the "brown Turkey variety that is common over here but we do have to put them against a wall for extra warmth and winter protection.
Musa basjoo is looking good... again is it root hardy for you? Try Musa Sikkimensis ...easily root hardy for me if you plant deep enough. Soil must be free draining though.
Love your Castor oil plants (Ricinus) My favourite is New Zealand purple.
Your Arids are looking good too.
I don't have a problem with rabbits although they are not far away. It is Muntjac Deer that can cause me problems. They bark like a dog just to let you know they are around especially at 3.00 am 👿

Jeff- This is the first year for growing any agave. I will prob. cover them with plastic and make some kind of greenhouse type thing over them. It is way to wet here in the winter time for them. They can take cold, but they will rot if it's wet and cold.

Andy- This is the first year iv grown Chicago hardy figs, they apparently are fast growers and produce fruit on new growth. The variety actually originated in Italy and was grown in a Chicago garden for years by an Italian immigrant. I am hoping with some protection it will survive as it's warmer down here than up in Chicago. I have seen some figs growing in St. Louis, MO which is farther north than here and they were pretty large and had a lot of fruit. Musa Basjoo is very root hardy here iv had parts of corms over winter in piles of leaves before. I don't dig them up and sometimes the bases of the trunks are still inact in the spring. I planted a Musa "Mekong Giant" this year supposedly its a hardy banana, not actually from thailand it's a selection of a Chinese species. I have been wanting to try Skimminsis "Red Tiger" as a hardy alternative to Musa Rojo/zebrina but no one really has them here, all i see is the seed. The castor beans got huge and "Impala" is suppose to be a dwarf variety. I have a big collection of a dozen or so varieties of Alocasia and Colocasia's. I have had a lot of trouble lately with Rabbits, White-tailed deer, and Ground hogs getting into and eating my plants. A deer ate my poor chocolate Mimosa tree, well ate most of it so I put up a barrier around it. The deer ate the bark off of it, and all the leaves. They have been really bad about eating my succulent plants like sedums too. I think its because there thirsty cause we have been in a drought. I try to keep the bird baths filled up when I do they seem to bother my succulent plants less. I have heard that you had feral Muntjac deer in the UK, im glad the deer here don't bark. The only loud animals we have here are owls and Coyotes, which scare me sometimes. I don't like being outside at night because of Coyotes and possums, Raccoons, and Skunks. There have also been cougar sightings around here and one of my neighbors had a horse get attacked. They set up one of those motion Cameras and caught a pic of a cougar.

What's the forecast there???

Will you guys get in on the rain from Isaac?

They are saying 2-4" here and maybe as much as 5"

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